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Letters of friendship require no study.

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George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
1St U.S. President
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Westmoreland County
Virginia
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G. Washington
Father of the United States
The American Fabius
Friendship
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I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
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While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.
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The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.
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Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
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The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
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When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
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The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
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Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
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Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.
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Be not forward, but friendly and courteous the first to salute, hear and answer and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
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